The Ambassador yearbook has a long history that connects Assumption College with the University of Windsor we know today which was founded in 1963.

The Ambassador provides a glimpse at the the history of our institution and provides us a window into life at Assumption and the University of Windsor during some of the most turbulent and transformative periods of the past century. Feel free to read, browse, and share this content. It is available here for most years between 1939 - 1977.

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This, the first annual in the history of Assumption College High School, is brought to you as an ambassador of good will. This volume is the beginning of a new era at Assumption, for out of the past has arisen a new and greater Assumption, enhanced by nearly a century of splendid and glorious traditions. May this book reflect the sense of neighborliness which exists between the United States and Canada. Assumption, like its giant neighbor, the Ambassador Bridge, serves as a link between the two greatest countries in America, in bridging the gap in this troubled age of transition. It is our sincerest desire that this spirit of friendliness will continue to thrive in these days of a world in chaos.

War- that ghastly, dreaded thing that holds the destinies oi many peoples in balance, again has Come' to our shores. Great are the sacrifices which war in defense of the country demand and great is the vigilance of the Church in war time. Materialism and the denial of a living God annihilate conscience, breakdown the barriers to sensuality, so broadcast the seeds of moral death, and are fatal to liberty and social order. A people without belief in God and in a future life will not long remain tree. For its own protection, the age of democracy must be an age of religion.

Fleecy white clouds float lazily in a blue sky changing into countless shapes and forms while graceful metamorphosis takes place. They appear in sombre grey which soon changes into deepest ebony and after the elements have rent the earth with thunder lightning and rain, the sun appears transforming these gaseous bodies into objects of iridescent splendour. So may the clouds change but mankind never changes. Since the beginning of time man, bereft of his innocence has been moved by some inner instinct to seize; to cheat; to kill his fellow men and thus being imbued with the will to power, nations have arisen against one another and their antagonism has rocked the world to the sorrow and suffering of the multitudes.

The once peaceful countrysides of Europe continue to be theatres of violent and bloody warfare: the spirit of evil marches forward seeking place and power at the cost of human freedom. The emotions of the peoples of both sides of the world have been aroused and many are the broken hearts, the smashed hopes and the wrecked lives of these peoples.

ASSUMPTION COLLEGE is committed to the task of trying to impart to her students a Christian liberal education. The task is not easy nor popular. The trend of our times is away from and opposed to making young men integral human beings. Our age prefers to have its graduates from college skillful scientists, good business men and professional practitioners rather than men of wide and deep learning and sound moral character. But I after all, is it not better for the world generally that its young men should possess an invigorating philosophy of life and a character disciplined to seek the common good, than that they should know how to make money ' selfishly and exercise professional skills?

Many an Assumption student has read the Latin words on the scroll above the front entrance of the Memorial Science Building: many passers-by have asked the meaning of the words, "Bonitatem, disciplinam et scientiam doce me". These words were written by a Wise Man, divinely inspired, a thousand years before Our Lord. They represent a truth often forgotten even by educators. Your college is directed by a religious community which has made these words its motto. Knowledge is not an end in itself but a means. The use made of knowledge can be good, indifferent or bad. It is like a sharp-edged tool that can be used most effectively by a skilled and careful worker but which can inflict serious iniury upon a worker who is awkward or careless. True education must provide safeguards for the safe and prosperous use of knowledge. Assumption believes the Wise Man - it has tried, with God's grace, to develop in you, its graduates, goodness and self-control that in your lives knowledge may be most valuable and most fruitful.

In the coat of arms of the Basilian Fathers appears a quotation from one of the Psalms: “Teach me goodness, discipline and knowledge. (Psalm 118.66). I would like to say a few things about “discipline” and point out why it is stressed in Basilian schools. Discipline is an interesting word and a still more interesting thing. As you know, the word is derived from the Latin “discere” meaning “to learn”. The disciple is one who learns from a teacher. “Discipline” is that virtue in the teacher and that virtue in the student which enables the teacher to teach and the student to learn. Without it, there is no teaching nor learning.

As we cherish the blessings of our Holy Religion. as we prize the possession of our political and personal liberty guaranteed by Democracy. As we honour the Vicar of Christ. Assumption students without exception will show themselves both prompt and eager in their response to the call of the Holy Father. By contributing each his share to the crusade of prayer. penance and good works. Assumption men will not only enrich themselves by the disposal. that most desirable and, namely, the Peace of Christ in the Reign of Christ.

It was still possible a year ago to write—"Christendom is in greater peril from complacency and lethargy than from the ideology of Communism". Recent events have disposed of complacency and lethargy has been succeeded by action. Even the threat of total war demands total mobilization and every person will be required to play a part and pay a price somehow. As Assumption Graduates of 1951, you go forth to take your places in the world with the complete confidence of your College that with God's grace you will do your full duty wherever it is His will you should be.

The college years of the Class of ’52 have not been conducive to calm development of mind and pursuit of knowledge. The “cold war’l and the Korean campaign with their background of constant Communist pressure the world over have kept the minds of all alert to danger. You must join the ranks of the armies of Christendom that in the field and on the home front stand aligned against the deadliest aggressor of Christian time. On any front you should contribute the strength that comes from having been nurtured in the sound traditions out that Christian culture which Communism recognizes as its strongest foe. May the grace of God strengthen your souls, your hearts and your arms.